"For them to go backwards and not cast another [actor of color] kind of sucks," Leguizamo, who starred in the 1993 live-action version, of the upcoming animated movie.
John Leguizamo is saying mamma mia to the new “Super Mario Bros.” casting.
I do sometimes raise my eyebrows at the frequency that Black voice actors play the villains, though.
Like, even star wars (surprising because they managed it in a live action movie)
Black men just tend to have deeper voices
Deep voice = scarybad in movie
I mean, isn't that the same thing? Like, why are deep voices seen as scary?
Deep voice requires a large ribcage for that resonance, usually meaning a larger person, and bigger people are more intimidating
Bear in mind I'm just some asshole on the internet saying things that sounds like they make sense
I could be wrong about everything and probably am :very-smart:
Maybe Hollywood selects for large, tall black men with deep voices to be famous so they can have big evil intimidating black characters in their movies to intimidate people evilly with their bigness
I learned to speak from my chest because I hated my voice and I wanted to hit all the deep notes on Aerials
i mean to be fair, giancarlo esposito is the evil capitalist/authoritarian in EVERYTHING now
Except Giancarlo is a skinny aging bureaucrat and Bowser is a 300 lb dragon turtle.
This would have been the perfect voice role for a Jason Momoa or Dwayne Johnson, if you absolutely need a celebrity on the title card. Otherwise, get literally anyone who has a bit of reverb in their voice. Giancarlo's best work barely happens above a whisper. We're looking for Darth Vader not The Godfather.
(you're missing the joke, that browser is voiced by Jack Black, the white guy)
Oh shit. I did miss that. Well I got got.
I do still think it's pretty racist that Black voices are predominantly used as villains in cartoons, even if this isn't an example of that.
I like the super Mario Brothers super show casting. Like, cast two Sicilians (or Italians) - or at least two Brooklyn -raised Italians.
What is this Micky Mouse bullshit I see before my very eyes? :eric-andre:
spoiler
Seriously this is the only casting in the movie I like
I hope the Mario bros movie bombs so they don't try to make a Legend of Zelda movie
2 hours of Link running around the Water Temple swimming and pushing levers
Running around yelling hyah, spinning in circles and rolling into walls.
Don't forget the 45 minute stop in the plot for Link to trade items to upgrade his sword, that really just padded the run time.
Zelda is ideal for a movie franchise because it can reset its hero origin story over and over again and keep rehashing rebooted Hyrules just like Spider-Man did but with less pushback from most of its fans. :so-true:
Me explaining why I appreciate the story continuity in CDi Zelda games even if the games are terrible :morshupls:
The structure of Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon resemble an old text adventure, ever notice?
Link/Zelda as a generic fantasy cliche story framework is entirely incidental to the games themselves. What makes them good (or, occasionally, bad) games is ultimately the gameplay and not the plot.
A Hollywood studio trying to adapt one of these things to a screenplay would absolutely piss off everyone and produce an enormous flop.
The worst part is you could make a fantastic story around the backstory of OoT leading into the events of the game with the five kingdoms warring over the Triforce and the Gerudo getting fucked over leading to a young Ganondorf consolidating power through his whole coveting-the-wind speech in Wind Waker, but I trust exactly no one in entertainment to not fuck that up and have a shitty Marvel movie in its place.
Back when the original Mario movie came out, Hollywood was widely considered the peak form of culture. It made sense for a quality brand to reach for blockbuster status, and it was fine if they overreached and made a bad film. Nowadays Hollywood doesn't have the cultural cache is used to, and frankly it feels like Nintendo is stepping down by making a kids CGI movie. It's fine for a trashy brand like Sonic, but Mario is supposed to be above this sort of thing - it's like if Nintendo released a Mario sex toy.
:sicko-wistful:
Mario is above nothing and was always targeted at kids. This is like complaining about Scooby Doo making a kids movie
Yeah, they're just really good at making you forget about the flops. Like the animated TV show. Or the PC games. Or Mario DDR. Or the countless tie-ons like Mario Monopoly or branded McDonalds toys and stuff. Thinking that Mario is above chintzy crap is ignoring half the franchise's media.
it wasn't? Idunno, I was like 9 and that shit SLAPPED
Waluwigi was the boss!
I was more upset at Scooby Doo making what felt like an adult movie.
Mario is incredibly popular, but it's also very shallow (at least as far as most people know it). Kind of reminds me of the time Hollywood tried to adapt Tetris and that didn't go so great.
The real joy of Mario is playing it as a child (I've never met anyone who really likes Mario who got into it as an adult) and I'm not sure if that translates at all into a movie for all audiences.
It’s fine for a trashy brand like Sonic, but Mario is supposed to be above this sort of thing
:jesse-wtf:
it’s like if Nintendo released a Mario sex toy.
That's funny, since nintendo ows the 1990 mario porn parody
They bought it to squash it, which is precisely what I'm talking about. Generally speaking, Nintendo cares about protecting their brand - although not from trashy mobile games or mid children's movies, apparently.
